Orange banded pill millipede
Glomeris annulata
Eats: Leftovers and dead thingsCentipedes and millipedesForests and woodsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The orange banded pill millipede is a short, round millipede. Its back plates are black, and each one has an orange band along its edge. Like other pill millipedes, it can roll up into a little ball.
Fun fact: this one is not an insect. Insects have six legs, and this cousin has many, many more.
Lives in
Only in southern France, in forests
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other pill millipedes, it munches on dead leaves on the forest floor.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Orange banded pill millipede about 0.2 km/h (0.12 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives only in southern France and nowhere else in the world.
2
It has been found in forests about 300 metres above the sea.
3
When scared, it rolls into a tight ball, so its hard back plates protect its soft belly.
you asked
Most asked questions about Orange banded pill millipede
?What is a pill millipede?
It is a short millipede that can roll itself up into a ball, like a little pill.
?Is the orange banded pill millipede dangerous?
No. It is harmless.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Glomeris annulata
- Group
- Centipedes and millipedes
- Family
- Glomeridae
- Classification
- Diplopoda > Glomerida > Glomeridae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Glomeris annulata (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by (B–D photographed by Jan Philip Oeyen) Reip HS, Wesener T (2018) Intraspecific variation and phylogeography of the millipede model organism, the Black Pill Mill. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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